Westonia bohemica
No picture of Westonia bohemica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Westonia bohemica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WestoniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Obolidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Obolidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Obolidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Lingulata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 508.2 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Westonia bohemica on record, most of them in the Cambrian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
2 occurrences- Cambrian100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Westonia bohemica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Westonia bohemica and its relatives
CambrianWhere Westonia bohemica and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Lobocephalina emmrichi2 sites
- Paradoxides (Hydrocephalus)2 sites
- Ptychoparia striata2 sites
- Acadagnostus1 site
- Acadolenus1 site
- Acadoparadoxides1 site
- Acrothele1 site
- Akadocrinus1 site
- Akadocrinus jani1 site
- Bohemiacinctus havliceki1 site
- Brahimorthis1 site
- Ceratocystis perneri1 site
- Cigara1 site
- Conocoryphe1 site
- Conocoryphe sulzeri1 site
- Ctenocephalus1 site
- Dawsonia1 site
- Ellipsocephalus1 site
- Etoctenocystis bohemica1 site
- Helcionelloidea1 site
- Hypagnostus1 site
- Konicekion1 site
- Lichenoides priscus1 site
- Litavkaspis rejkovicensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Westonia bohemica, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- Asturicystis havliceki sp. nov. (Echinodermata, Homostelea) from the Middle Cambrian of Bohemia (Barrandian area, Czech Republic)1
- Chlupáč et al., 19981
Each of the 2 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Westonia bohemica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Westonia bohemica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Westonia bohemica was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itWestonia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Koliha 1921)